8 samples of violet perfume have been sitting in my collection for a year now. I never got around to them for some reason or another. Now that it is the first day of Spring, I thought this would be a good time to dust them off and give them a sniff…

Long time no post! I apologize for my unexplained absence. Life got in the way. I’ve gone back to school and the sheer amount of work required has been excessive. Unfortunately, I have had no time to sniff and post but I’m trying to get back into the swing of things. I can’t promise I will be posting on a regular basis but I promise I will share my exciting new discoveries!

Lately, I have an obsession with loose leaf teas. There is something about tea that makes me relaxed and calm. Just as perfume, the aroma is cathartic with the added bonus perfume doesn’t provide — you can savor the flavor! As a matter of fact, I wrote a post about the similarities betweeen tea and perfume. You can check it out here. Late night studying makes me sleepy and I tend to snack to keep me awake. Tea helps keeps me awake without excess consumption of calories. (Remember the Freshmen Ten?)

I recently discovered a loose leaf tea company from Canada called DavidsTea. To me, DavidsTea is like Lush or Bath & Bodyworks but for tea. They bring tea to the masses which is pretty cool! Everyone should drink tea. Tea does a body good! Their tea menu is extensive, it’s enough to make your head spin! They have so many different kinds of teas and flavors to choose from such as Black, Green, Oolong, Rooibos, and Tisane blends. It was hard to choose just three…

I apologize for being M.I.A for the past couple of weeks. My sleep clock has been out of whack, I’ve had to deal with family health issues, and now I have a bad case of the cold. Since my nose is out of commission, I’m going sit back and hand my husband the blogging reins. The above picture is my husband’s perfume stash, he has managed to acquire these bottles and samples in the past six months. I find it astonishing that he has managed to collect 8 full bottles in such a short span of time. Mind you, he had absolutely zero interest in perfumes and couldn’t understand my keen interest in fragrances. Now he is addicted to perfume reviews on youtube (robes08 aka The Fragrance Guru are practically best buds now) and impulsively orders fumes online. I don’t know whether to be happy or frightened that he is sharing my perfume obsession, but the dude can’t stop smelling things!

So without further ado, introducing Mr. Olfactory Obsessed’s perfume collection and his rather unconventional description of each scent…

It’s not very often you see a line outside the door of an eating establishment in Belfast. (That’s what San Franciscans do!) According to my husband, Belfastians aren’t generally foodies. The majority of Belfastians are not so head over heels about food that they aren’t willing to wait more than 10 minutes in line. They care more about drink than food. (It’s Ireland, afterall.) Imagine how shocked my husband and I were when we saw a line (or queue as they say here in the UK) outside Boojum, a new Mexican fast food “burrito bar” in the city centre.

Boojum is a small chain in Ireland started by a husband and wife team. The husband is an American from Philadelphia and the wife from Ireland. The wife was so addicted to burritos during her time spent in Philadelphia that she had the brilliant idea of opening up a burrito bar in Ireland. Boojum was born.

We have pretty decent Mexican food in San Francisco but nothing compares to the Mexican food in Los Angeles. My first authentic Mexican food experience was when my roommate at UCLA (a second generation Mexican-American) took me to her East Los Angeles hood. Her family owned a taqueria and it was here I was introduced to enchiladas swimming in mole sauce. It was a revelation and ego shattering to discover that Mexican food in San Francisco is not up to par as its Southern California cousins. Goes to show the closer you are to the border, the more authentic the food gets.

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Blunt, 110% honest reviews from a non-discriminating, open-minded fragrance enthusiast. I smell everything and anything from perfumes to soap to lotion to candles to laundry detergent. If it has a scent I smell it!

I don't consider myself an authority on fragrance. I use this blog to catalog my likes and dislikes and as a tool to gain wisdom and share my new found discovery with others making it accessible and easy to understand.

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